DJ Lucas wrote: > While I'm not personally a fan of KDE/QT, it seems to me that a lot of > people here are (or at least were until KDE4) and I'd really like to see > some effort in getting a recent KDE into the book. I just looked at the > release tarballs for KDE-4.5.1, and they look like the same layout as > the older KDE releases, well for as far back as I can remember anyway. I > mean, what, there are 22 instead of like 18 groups of packages now, but > still very similar to the last one that I had built before jumping ship > to Gnome (think I made the change around 3.0's release time, and might > have built to the desktop once after that for OpenOffice deps). Once > the dependencies are worked out, it really can't be that much more of a > pain than say Gnome (minus the cmake learning curve).
I've tried KDE4 and don't like the look and feel. My #1 app is konsole. KDE4 just made it cumbersome. Looking at the build procedures on the wiki, it looks quite complex. Working to build something I don't like does not appeal to me. OTOH, I do use Qt4 all the time. In fact I built Qt-4.7.0 just yesterday and the instructions in the book are fine. Only the filename and build data really need to be changed. It takes a very long time to build though, even on a fast system. It has bulked up considerably in later releases. I did a check and found about 6800 .cpp files. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
